Photo: APA US man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs, held captive for 88 days, and of killing her parents. Patterson admitted kidnapping Jayme after killing her parents, James and Denise Closs, on October 15 last year at the family's home near Barron, about 145km northeast of Minneapolis. Jayme escaped in January, after 88 days in Patterson's cabin in near the small, isolated town of Gordon, some 97km from her home. Jayme told police that the night of the abduction, the family dog's barking awoke her, and she went to wake up her parents as a car came up the driveway. Patterson grew up in the cabin where he held Jayme.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 27, 2019 22:52 UTC